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S2 Ep95: Talkcast v4
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Grab a cup of joe, pull up your most comfortable chair, and join Dave and Jake as they talk about whatever they want in this week's episode!
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00:00:29
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I am the one who is the one who is the one
Introduction & Podcast Dynamics
00:00:36
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How's it going, everyone? Welcome to another episode of Soapstone. My name is Jake. I'm joined by my co-host is always Dave. How's it going, Dave? It's okay. I think I accelerated the tail end of it a little bit more than the normal. Didn't give me that extra half second to react or something. Yeah, I can I can kind of tell when the pacing's off just a little bit. I just I think it's after a few years of saying the exact same thing, you can tell when it's wrong.
00:01:07
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You'd think that, but there are times that you do the outro and I just, I laugh all the time. Yeah. Outro is kind of a crap shoot because I can't prepare for it in advance. Well, I can, but I never do. Mentally. Because by that point we're actively recording. So I'm like, how do I actually, how do I cap this off? Okay. I need to say the thing. We've had like an appropriately or inappropriately long pause and we're ready to just end the episode here awkwardly. And then I'm just like, go home, get out.
00:01:37
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That's one thing I like about us having this podcast is it's so So open-ended. Yeah, I don't think anybody has expert Well, there's some people who say why don't you do this? I say fuck you. It's not your podcast. All right, but Is that what people have stopped responding? Is it in his suggestions? The few people have been nice enough to write in I told them go fuck themselves. I think I
00:02:00
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I really like JRPGs and it's just like how dare you. So I actually talked with that person about that jokingly. Uh-huh. I said this is why you're not getting any JRPGs. Someday maybe now. We have so many long play games on the list as is. JRPGs are exceptionally long too. It's kind of a problem. It's all like it's time management for us really like
00:02:26
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I mean, I have a lot of free time. I just don't have the drive to do anything ever. Yeah. I mean, interactively doing other things. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, it's kind of hard sometimes to find time to play a specific game, but something we were doing for a while was playing like in preparation of a future podcast.
00:02:48
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Uh, cause during the dark days, um, of podcast recording, it'd get to the point where it was like, ah, there's like three days left and this is a 15 hour long day. Guess I'll just, you know, go offline, play this, neglect all of my personal relationships. Um, and I don't think, I don't think our listeners want that of us. I'll be honest.
00:03:12
Speaker
Do you listen? I think most of our listeners are people who we interact with online. So it's more likely that we'd be playing a game with them.
Planning & Technical Mishaps
00:03:22
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Yeah. We got better at scheduling things and planning things out too. Cause for a while we were like, Hey, this 40 hour game next week. We're like, Oh, but we've started to kind of plan some longer play things out. Yeah. There's a spreadsheet.
00:03:39
Speaker
We can't show you the spreadsheet. And we won't show you the spreadsheet. That's proprietary. Yes. This is core Soapstone IP. We like it to be a mystery so that you'll check Facebook once a week. Or at least your phone. Or click refresh on Spotify. Yeah, but you got a notification. Do phones do that? Do they tell you when Soapstone posts things? If you like follow it, I guess. I mean, maybe if you had like an RSS feed app, you could be like, notify me when this is updated.
00:04:10
Speaker
I wouldn't know because I'm in the dark ages of technology, right? And I just post it on Facebook and call it a day. Do you ever listen to the podcast after we've posted something? Um, I used to, but I hear you all the fucking time already. Um, and it's also of course weird to hear your own voice. Yeah. Um, so usually I'll just go through and check for like a transitionary edits and other stuff like that. Maybe some audio levels. Remember one time we uploaded like Jake, uh,
00:04:40
Speaker
this 20 minute period sounds fucking weird and you're like oh my god yeah and then like we fixed it and then i actually post it but normally no i don't go back and do full lessons i like the way that you portrayed that like you made it sound like it could have been distantly in the past and not like three episodes ago this mistake was made um yeah i had we were younger then right we've improved as individuals um
00:05:05
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Yeah, I had moved the audio into a track that was muted for like intermission, I think. So you heard both of us. You would hear both of us, but one person was obscenely quiet. Yeah, you were hearing them through the reverb through the other person's mic, which doesn't sound normal as it turns out. So thankfully Dave caught that. We replaced the audio and literally no one will ever hear it.
00:05:31
Speaker
They have the ears of a hawk. Yeah, I was gonna say eyes of a hawk, but that also have been good. Yeah Hawks have a good senses. Mm-hmm. You you noticed it initially though because you actually saw the waveform was off I think right there in the center
00:05:46
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Yeah, if you just look at it normally, it's like, oh, it's kind of like a bumpy line. But at a point, like the midriff was just missing in comparison. I was like, maybe something's off with that. Because most of the time, I mean, one of our most cherished features is our ability to just leave 15 seconds of silence, like between thoughts and the podcast at times, and then not going back and editing those stretches of silence out.
00:06:14
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But for the most part, one of us is talking at a given time. Yeah. But I also think.
00:06:22
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It's either it's a lack of caring or there's a certain amount of vindictiveness where we will do intentional things that we know upset people. Yeah. And we won't do anything to fix it or we will purposefully put it in. Like I know one listener does not appreciate when we have random, um, transition cuts for like, uh, an intermission. Yeah. And we just kind of jumped in and he's like, what was that? I hate them.
00:06:49
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Well, that's unfortunate because we explicitly try to make it as disruptive as possible. It's part of the thing. We're counter-culture.
00:07:00
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Oh, it's a tangent off of that.
Personal Anecdotes & Humor
00:07:02
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That person in particular has their bachelor party coming up next weekend. Oh dang. And so one of the things that we're doing is going go-kart or racing, electric, whatever the kart is. Mario Kart, I understand. And we are dressing up as different characters from the Mario universe. Oh nice. I opted for Waluigi.
00:07:23
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So I have some purple stuff, a pair of suspenders I'm never going to wear again. Sorry, overalls.
00:07:33
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Did you already have the overalls? No. Oh, okay. You purchased them for this. I don't have overalls. It's not part of my repertoire of clothing. I wasn't sure if you guys just said like someday maybe I'll go as Wario. So overalls, we'll keep them there. Or is the kid from my girl? Macaulay Culkin, I think. Oh, okay. Yeah. Maybe I just like do some painting around the apartment or something. Right. Or I'll use overalls. Maybe I could wade through a, a crick. Yeah, right.
00:08:03
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There's all the times that I've showed up to do the recording. Maybe you're just there shirtless with our overalls, a piece of hay in your mouth. And I'm just like, if I remember, I'm gonna do it. I could have actually just, no, we grabbed the bite when it came in, but I could have just, you know, been dressed as Waluigi.
00:08:22
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That would have thrown me off somewhat I'm already like thinking about what I'm gonna say kind of like as a joke or whatever when I arrive You prep something in the right I try to I try to just be like all right. Here's one thing. Here's the topic something you could talk about Like this week was the corona virus because literally everybody's talking about it the one The corona virus Oh COVID-19
00:08:49
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So anyways, that's that topic. I've been seeing a lot of good memes about that. Yeah, that's the best thing to come out of it. It really is.
00:08:59
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But I mean, not to get too political and dark, but, uh, memes are great because, uh, I don't think that that's political or dark. Well, I'm saying like, there are a lot of things that do suck. Um, socially, environmentally, in general, you could be like, this is a shit show. Yeah. Is this how our countries run or in other things or things happening around the world? Uh, so it's nice to be able to make fun of them with dumb pictures and text. It's true. Time to time.
00:09:29
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Yeah, it also it helps that it's not like at least for us in the u.s Tragedy level yet. So it's a little bit easier to make some of those memes. It's kind of like, um Right after 9 11 those first people that were coming out with memes like probably a little bit too early a little bit insensitive Trying to be a little too edgy But with covet we haven't had something crazy yet people haven't seen what it's like to go without toilet paper for multiple months on end so
00:09:59
Speaker
Until that's really personal. Yeah, you know, I'll be honest after 9-11 I was the first person blasting paper planes while driving to McDonald's Was that out then? I don't know. I really don't know. Probably not. That was a long time ago. I feel like that was more recent because I remember that being in Slumdog Millionaire. Yeah That's where I think it got its big burst of popularity. Hmm interesting Was that M. Night Shyamalan who made that?
00:10:29
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It could be. I really don't look who makes movies. I don't know. That sounds wrong. Actually. No, I think about it. Probably not. It was a good movie though. I never seen it. I always, I assumed it was just like a continuation of who wants to be a millionaire. You're just like, Oh, I wish.
00:10:46
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Yeah, so here's one person we were talking about the the theme song Mm-hmm, which is super badass for its time. It's really like holds up You should pause the podcast go listen to the theme song for wants to be a millionaire. You may come back
00:11:00
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You may, I will allow it. But it's just, it's very hype. It has some chorus vocals going on and it just, it, it builds it and I love it. And then I was watching a zero Lenny video today cause he had some modded Dark Souls two thing that he was doing. And one of the sound edits used halfway through the video was that exact song. I'm like, I just showing this to Jake. So it was cool for it to come full circle.
00:11:31
Speaker
It's like that, um, I know that there's a, a bias for racially or otherwise, it's like a familiarity bias. So like, if, if something, um, if you notice something and you're like, Hey, Oh, I was just looking at that. Yes. You're like, Oh, okay. Gotcha. That's just like a bias. But there's been several occurrences in my life where I'm just like, this isn't that at all. This is suspiciously specific, right? Like.
00:11:57
Speaker
Well, there are times where it's targeted ads. There are other times where you were saying to be more susceptible. Like if you're, let's say you just got dumped by a girl and you started to hear those songs on the radio. You're kind of ignoring other songs, but you hear something that is in tune with how you feel and you're like, they keep playing these sad songs on the radio. Why is it like this? Why Alexa? Why?
00:12:22
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or Google, you know, depending on your religion. Um, yeah, I wonder, I guess it's probably, it's probably like birthday problem, right? Like given enough connections, a couple of them are going to be made. So I mean, if you have 30 people in a room, there are two of them that have a common birthday. You're like,
00:12:42
Speaker
Mathematically, that seems wrong, but like you probably listened to a lot of songs or watched a lot of videos and one of them happened to have the millionaire theme song. So you're like, ah, but it could have been any other connection that would have been made instead. To be fair, like the other stuff I had on today, cause I like to have something in the background while I'm working, either some music or author on like a couple of different podcasts.
00:13:05
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Right. Not us. Not this one. We talked about this. Specify, not this one. We like to listen to
COVID-19 Conversations
00:13:10
Speaker
quality podcasts. Like usually I'm following stuff that like comedians are doing just to get like some insight into their life. And they're generally funny people or interesting people. Again, not us. No. I guess it would have to be like a more common meme for me to see it a lot. Like a smash compilation video or something.
00:13:30
Speaker
Yeah, there's some good tracks that go along with a smash compilation videos obviously rob compilations because like what else are you gonna watch really but You keep saying that like you're gonna pick rob tonight after we finish recording and you're gonna stay on them for more than three games Yeah, I don't know. I think I think the rob falcon matchups a little closer than it was two nights ago Two nights ago. That would have been a night. We didn't play. Yeah two sessions ago. There you go
00:13:58
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I feel like I'm doing fine when I don't play against you. That's the takeaway. I mean, I definitely didn't kick your ass if we're not playing. But yeah, I think that...
00:14:09
Speaker
memes are okay. Memes will memes will get us through this. I was talking to my dentist, um, today, oral hygienist is probably the correct term because the doctor came in later and was just like, Hey, this guy sucks. Somebody professional is doing mouth stuff with you. Well, the oral hygienist is a cleaning and then they have the doctor stop by to be like, Hey, you know, do we need to do anything serious? Any follow up stuff, whatever like that. Um,
00:14:37
Speaker
But then the doctor just leaves like they're there for a very short period of time comparatively because there's like one person on site for everybody. Um, and yeah, like everybody was talking about, uh, about the Corona virus. Like I talked to the receptionist when I arrived because I was the only person there. So I just kind of like turned in my chair a little bit and had a conversation. Um, and then, uh, I talked to the oral hygienist about it and I actually asked her, I was like,
00:15:03
Speaker
Like, does everyone talk about this? Like, are you tired of talking about this topic? Because every patient coming in is talking about it. And is everyone actually talking about it? And she's like, yeah, today pretty much everybody's talking about it, but I'm not tired of it. It's something other than the weather to talk about.
00:15:24
Speaker
I appreciate good weather. I really do. But like for me, I walk outside and take like a deeper breath. I walk with a more confident step. Beyond that, don't fucking talk to me about it. We know it's nice or we know it's shitty. We're not going to commiserate or find a bond over that. It's like a default. Yeah.
00:15:45
Speaker
that's outside you're right it is outside we have this in common the outside i think from a positive perspective that you could spin off of the weather onto something else it's an ice breaker for a conversation but sometimes weather we're having would you like to go out on a date with
00:16:02
Speaker
I was, I stopped by a giant that just grabbed two things with tortillas. Cause for whatever reason, when I was at, I think Whole Foods or Wegmans, they didn't have the small tortillas. And for like having some tacos, they don't want to have burrito sized tortillas and call it a gigantic taco. So I just ran in quick to grab those. And a lot of people were doing grocery shopping for, you know, the snap judgment of there's a store, my gotta get bread and milk and eggs.
00:16:33
Speaker
Well, for me, it's brioche, almond milk, and cage-free eggs. I'm not going to get any of that dairy crap. Fuck no. I got to say, I do like almond milk, though. Screw you, farmers of America. This lady... Friend of the show. This lady was in line in front of me, and she noticed I had just two packages of tortillas, and she said, hey, you can go in front of me since you only have two items. Like, oh, cool, thank you. And then she's like,
00:17:03
Speaker
I'm gonna start talking to this guy So she's like, oh just like a man to know what he wants. He just comes in the store and gets Just one item and I was like That's weird. What? it's like a compliment but in the form of an insult it was like more of like a Sexist thing against women. Uh-huh. There's more like a
00:17:24
Speaker
Like, it's something that men can do and women can't. Like, oh, if you were a woman. Cause she's like, I came in here, me and you get two things, ended up getting like 10 things. And I'm just thinking, normally when I go grocery shopping, I don't just go for one item. I get multiple things. So also you now have more stuff that you will be able to use. Right. In some ways that's efficient. I'm just thinking like, this is my 10th time here today. So I don't know why she's being judgmental one way or the other.
00:17:50
Speaker
Yeah. And then she started talking about, uh, we have some school districts closing for COVID-19. Right. And, um, her reaction wasn't that of, oh my God, I'm concerned about X, Y, and Z. Yeah. It's more of that her, she's, she's a teacher and her school district wasn't closing. Oh. And she's like, I'm grumpy about this. I'm like, I really wish I didn't go in front of you in line now. Cause this is now a social obligation that I did not mean to commit to.
00:18:19
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, if you really wanted to just nuclear exit yourself from the conversation, you could just be like, how is COVID-19 transmitted? I just feel like you're going to go through all the different ways. You know, bodily fluids, whatever. It's airborne. You're like, oh, it's airborne. And you just turn away and finish your transaction.
00:18:41
Speaker
Or just, you know, keep wiping your brow and like, Ooh, it's feeling kind of hot. Yeah. I think I might have some sort of, uh, tuberculosis. You know, the old TV. I know it's pneumonia. Pneumonia is what it is. Not tuberculosis. What am I talking about?
00:18:59
Speaker
I don't know. I just roll with it sometimes. Have you ever had like weird people interaction or just like the fuck is this person doing? Yeah, that's definitely. I don't think as much. Now cite an example. That was the
00:19:15
Speaker
Sure. Um, so there was a person, uh, that was an intern at work for a while without giving any personal details. I called him big cat and he's basically, he was the most awkward, one of the most awkward people I've probably ever encountered, um, for some reasons.
00:19:35
Speaker
One of those reasons was the posting of, uh, I'm going to say like furry comics in a public place above his little workstation thing. And like, not like furry comments, comics that are in no way sexual, but like a little bit sexual, not fully sexual, but a little bit sexual. It wasn't like, Hey, here's a web comic with some characters that's lighthearted.
00:20:02
Speaker
And they're just anthropomorphized. It's not Animal Crossing. No. It's more like... It's a little bit of that, you get the eye squint going on. It's a little ooh-woo. A little ooh-woo. Yeah. And he literally printed it out. It's like a giant four panel comic on 8.5x11 that he just kind of like push pinned above his workstation. But it was like full view because everybody had to walk by him. I'm just like, hmm...
00:20:30
Speaker
It's like, you know how some people at their job will put up pictures of their family or whatever? Fine. You know, that doesn't insult me in any way. It doesn't actually. It doesn't bother me. That's normal. That's what people do. Yeah. It's like this is the individual who would put up comics of furry stuff up there. And I'm not ragging on furries.
00:20:50
Speaker
Ragging is a term actually specific for that community. Um, but I mean, yeah, he didn't know what like social space slash context for any of this stuff was. And no general, I don't know what was going on, but didn't pick up on social cues for the most part.
00:21:06
Speaker
Do you remember on the this is back when Jake and I worked together We have like a a lot of times we go out for like group lunch outings because you just take the whole department Yeah, it's a small small group and we went to Taco Bell You might end up not been in the car, but I was with at least Two other people. Yeah, he starts talking about a Hitler's dog in detail I'm looking at the people in the car like bro. What?
00:21:34
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. It was in such a way that it was like, why are we talking about this and going into such a detail? I don't know how you talk about that and not feel that way. It's like other than the base level detailed Hitler had a dog, like any, any more in depth than that. And you start to, you cross an ogre into like Twilight zone territory where this guy is just the reincarnation of Hitler's dog. You know too much about this. Yeah.
00:22:02
Speaker
No, it was pretty freaking weird. He'd be up there, I think. I've interacted with other awkward people, but I work with computers and like went to a computer science.
00:22:12
Speaker
Program at school. Is that you've interacted with awkward people because of that or you are an awkward person because of that I was an awkward person like in probably community college days and what it's worth. I still think you I am Much better adjusted now socially than I was 100% I actually never thought you were bad. It's just like me and other computer science majors tend to be more
00:22:40
Speaker
I was going to say insecure, but also a freaking weird. No, it's more introverted. Sorry. Yeah. Introverted harder. Like keep yourself social cues. You're happy with yourself in your own head necessarily more than, more than necessarily interacting with other people. That was definitely something to get over. No, I, I really like positive interactions with random people. Like that's great. As long as they don't have COVID-19.
00:23:09
Speaker
Don't do that. Don't do COVID-19. Stay in school. Don't do drugs. Actually get out of school. Why are you in school? There are drugs there. There's COVID-19 there. But we'll see. We'll see where it goes. Probably going to be a bunch of closures.
00:23:30
Speaker
We're already working from home. I'd expect that to continue to spread to other industries. Some places are not getting that at all. So like Amazon, well yeah. I think it'll get to you eventually for working from home. But like Amazon, I read that Amazon leadership and people not in warehouses were being encouraged to stay home. But then people in warehouses were given more mandatory overtime.
00:23:59
Speaker
So they have to do it. Oh, wow. Fun. Yeah. Not super surprising given that these people are largely replacing the roles of those in like grocery stores for people who don't want to go out. Um, but it's a little unfortunate, you know, for them, they already have like a bad track record of how they treat their employees or am I thinking of a giant different corporation? No, they do. Yeah. Warehouse workers are the, the surfs of the Amazon kingdom, essentially. Um,
00:24:28
Speaker
And they've had a lot of issues with it. I mean, it's like, I think they pay slightly above minimum wage or whatever, but really heavy restrictions. And in general, if you're working for a place or a company, you want it to be a company that like.
00:24:45
Speaker
values you and will not replace you. Yeah. Like at the drop of a fly. And that's basically where they're
Amazon Experiences & Policies
00:24:53
Speaker
at. They're just like, okay, we could fire any number of these people and someone else would just fill your spot. That's a crappy spot to be. Yeah. It doesn't stop me from working on Amazon. Um, right. I actually, I ordered something recently. I wanted to.
00:25:12
Speaker
I guess just get some cleaning K-cups where it's like, instead of coffee, it's soap. And then it runs through the machine to kind of descale it or whatever else needs to be done. So it got delivered the other day.
00:25:27
Speaker
Um, and it was one of those bubble envelopes. Yeah, which kind of looks like a eight and a half by 11 type size. It was flat. There was literally nothing in it. I cut it open to double check. Cause I just saw a package from Amazon. I didn't know what it was supposed to be. Yeah. So maybe they sent me a single doc. It's just a sheet. That's like, uh, what are those collages of letters cut out? Yeah. We have you cleaning.
00:25:58
Speaker
But I just thought it was weird and there's nothing in it Yeah, so I go online like one of my recent orders like oh this thing was delivered. I'm like was that supposed to be the thing? It's like constant concept of them saying like hey there was literally nothing in this package I'm wondering like how it went through like the
00:26:15
Speaker
No, this guy ordered fuck all. Just give him a package. So I got refunded for it, but I was like, do I order it again or am I just going to get more empty packages? I don't know.
00:26:29
Speaker
Yeah, I've been refunded a couple of things from Amazon. And they have a pretty good policy of it if you have had an account for a while. If you do like rapid refunds or something, you'll get flagged. A lot of times it falls under the customers probably always write type thing.
00:26:46
Speaker
Yeah, and even if i'm sure they've run the numbers on it and they're just like even if the customer is not always, right? There's an accepted loss for sure. Exactly. Every company has that. The customer will give us more of a bump for just having this forgiven. So like one of the things I bought is when I was getting married I got a band as much as the one I have on my finger right now, but it was too small.
00:27:10
Speaker
Because men's rings are like stupid cheap like if you're not getting an actual engagement ring Well, I mean then they typically don't have gemstones exactly. Yeah, and then the marketing is completely different to like you can get an expensive men's band, but You can also just get like a tungsten ring or silver ring or whatever, you know, I
00:27:30
Speaker
Well, the whole thing is like, correct me if I'm wrong, since you would have seen a lot more of this than I would. Typically, a wedding ring for a lady is marketed as, hey, do you want to prove to her that you actually fucking love her and you don't hate her guts? 100% true. How is it marketed for men then? Is it like, hey, should probably have a second one of them? Yeah.
00:27:52
Speaker
We just got like a pile of these out back just to pick through one I think it depends on where you go through So like most of the stores if you're like going to the mall or something like that if you go to a jewelry store All of it's gonna be engagement rings a couple of them will be bands For just common use because there's the ring itself
00:28:10
Speaker
then you usually have a band for each person. I just realized midway through this, I can't assume, I shouldn't assume man-woman anymore, right? But both people will end up getting a band usually, and then the engagement ring will either be fused to the band, or it'll just be stored, and both people will have plain bands. Interesting. There's some cool combo stuff you can do with it. But if you get a men's band, it could still be expensive. You could get white gold or something if you felt like it.
00:28:40
Speaker
But the marketing if you just leave that store is just Amazon $12 tungsten or Wolfram band or whatever, right? So that's literally what I had. I had bought one that was on Amazon that was like 15 20 20 bucks something like that and
00:28:56
Speaker
And I was like, oh, it's too small. I'll send it back. Like, start the send back process. And they're just like, not just keep it. I was like, yeah, but I mean, like, I want the money back so I can buy different things. They're like, nope, we got it. We'll take care of it. Here's your money. Just buy a different one. I'm like, I still have this though. Oh, it's nice that you can do that. If you're going to have to write something, it's like,
00:29:18
Speaker
I thought things were going to work out, but we just keep coming back to the same argument. That sob story. They would have cared less. I think they're just like, Oh, how long have you been a customer for half your life? Okay. I just keep it. I don't care. We started to hear that. You're one of her valued customers. Yeah. And then there's been a couple of other things like that. If the cost of like shipping it back to them is half the price of the item or whatever, they're just like, I don't care.
00:29:47
Speaker
I mean, it's going to be overhead for them, too, to like reprocess, restore, re-audiata.
00:29:53
Speaker
I also give them probably like a lot of money or at least there's a lot of purchases. I don't know what the margins are, but I buy stuff on Amazon all the time. There's times where it's like, oh, I should go to the grocery store and like pick up this or whatever. I'm like, or I could buy that one thing I've been thinking of getting on Amazon and just throw that in and there you go. And this comes back to the, it's nice to be able to have the option to avoid social interactions where you're not feeling it.
00:30:20
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Cause I like, like I said, pleasant experiences with people, but usually if I'm just going through a store and being checked out by cashier, it's very, it's very road. Everybody knows what it is. Yeah. And you just, it's really obvious. I put down my, my brie very sensuously.
00:30:44
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Take it that'll be $14 wait how much let me put this back Yeah, you take out your wallet and start like counting out cash and the light just fades through it from their eyes They're just like not this again Is there anything sorry, I forget who I was talking to recently
00:31:03
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Somebody I know, forgetting the finer details, saw somebody who was like chewing tobacco. So it's like active tobacco spit in mouth. And then went to go pay for something and was like licking his thumbs to like kind of thumb out some bills from his wallet. Wow. Cause you know, you have to have it sticky enough to be able to grab it. That's terrifying. But it was just like the most disgusting story I ever heard. I was like, that's so gross.
00:31:32
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What I was going to ask is, is there anything worse than paying for things with cash money? And you answered the question. Putting your spit on it. That sounds miserable. I don't know what the point of cash money is anymore, actually. What's the point? I mean, it's the split checks. JK, the internet does that now too. Yeah.
00:31:57
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I don't know, strip clubs? I don't know. I'll send you a Bitcoin. You're very pretty and I like your dancing. I don't know. This isn't the time for it. Bitcoin's down to 30%. 30%. Or maybe this is the time for it. Just get rid of those Bitcoins. You know they're freaking worthless now. Jake says with a tracker to buy them.
00:32:23
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I mean, it's probably, I don't, I'm not going to give, don't listen to us in general, but also don't listen to us for financial advice. Theoretically, if it once this drops enough, it would be a good time to invest in things. Not necessarily saying Bitcoin, but is it good to buy things from their cheap you're saying? Right. Interesting. It's almost like buying low. There's a key part here.
00:32:47
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That's as far as I figured out. I have lots of stock, worthless, worthless stock. Now, but cryptocurrency will probably make a bounce back with the generalized stock market as well, since it's just more or less bound to it.
00:33:04
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I think everything will bounce back. Yeah. I can't imagine. It's that or it's like we, it goes so, yeah, it's literally like ice age style survival. Literally not going to have hunger games. It's so far out. And in that case, you wouldn't need that money anyways. I know. So I guess invest.
00:33:29
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It's either Hunger Games or you make money back. I'm gonna invest in physical milk. Yeah. And stock up on that. And bread. Nope, just milk. Just milk. I only have so much fridge space, so some might have to just be around the apartment. Right. My investment is aging. I mean, they have aged beef. Why can't we have aged other things like milk? I mean, I'm sure somewhere it's a delicacy.
00:33:58
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Yeah. Um, lots of other places though, I've come up with one of the air quote foods that, uh, I would not be keen on trying just because it's edible. It doesn't mean it's going to be to my taste so much just because it's edible. Doesn't make it right. That's the way I put it. It's safer for my lungs. Oh.
00:34:23
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I thought somebody was fucking calling me. Oh, okay. No, no. That's just cause you're high. I also recently got a,
00:34:38
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Text from somebody with the Bernie campaign. Yeah, and it's like one of those auto-generated like hey I'm so answer from the yada-yada campaign. Do you want to give your support or have other information etc? Yeah, and I just said thank you for the considerate text thinking is like an automated thing. Uh-huh and then they replied back and like Do you want to have any more information or like do you want us to send you a sticker and
00:35:03
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Or is there reason that you don't want information in a sticker? Do you want to swap nudes? I've not cared about anything for like five years, so I don't really follow... I don't follow many things.
00:35:14
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Okay. Gotcha. Thanks." And I'm like, all right, it worked. The interaction is now done. And then he fell in the polls, Biden took over. Single-handedly because you didn't respond to that message and give me support. My heart is because he's focusing too much on Michigan. Once again. Whatever the 20 minutes of NPR I heard was. Literally anyone to vote for me.
00:35:36
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Uh, that's politics though. That's not, that's not what you guys listened to this for. You listened to us rant about epidemics and then pandemics in this case. All right. Let's, let's make this a spin topic. Okay. Let's think of a game. Plague Inc. Okay. Pandemic. I was going to say, I guess something that is in the space of pandemic-y or has a really good political storyline. Okay. Hmm.
00:36:08
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Political storylines, a little harder for me to think of, uh, paying the pandemic and plaguing. So like, let me throw out some like final fantasy 10, right? Um, because of how vast the universe is, there's lots of different moving pieces. And a lot of times you'll have a race or a group of people who are kind of mistreated because they're seen as less than people. Right. The dark elves.
00:36:29
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Our girls are kind of assholes. Yes, they're oppressed, but with reason, fuck drill. Um, well, nevermind. You can go, but like, that's just an example because like the Guados were very elitist. The all bed were seen as like the outcasts of society and seen as lesser people.
00:36:59
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Actually, I never beat Final Fantasy 9. 10. Yeah, 10. This way. There's literally an X in my head as I said 9. It was just like, yeah, 9, you know, a single character in Roman numerals. Yeah, I never beat it. I got that George Clooney at my party at one point.
00:37:22
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Who the fuck is George? Oh Really? I wouldn't have come would have called him George Clooney. He's not he's but I know who you mean His voice is very similar though If you haven't listened to George Clooney in a while, especially that helps
00:37:37
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But yeah, I just had it on, um, a completely legitimate and legal emulator, um, for a bit and then took a break. And as everyone knows, especially amongst our listeners, if you take a break from a final fantasy game, that means you're not going to play it anymore. This is true. So actually fun fact, did you ever knew, no, were you aware that I, uh, once had ducks? No.
00:38:06
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So this was when I was living with my parents. Why the fuck would I own ducks? They were my parents' stuff. I claim they're ducks. Tax reasons. I don't even remember where we got them. It's probably like we were up in central Pennsylvania coming back from visiting my dad's side of the family. Yeah. And some people like, oh, we had some ducklings hatched. You want fucking ducks? And as a kid, my eyes were just huge. Why would I not want ducks? Because they're like very small, cute ducklings. They're adorable. Yeah.
00:38:36
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I remember taking them home in this box and it had some basic food and straw, but they were small ducklings in a box. We also had our giant chocolate lab in the car who was very curious about what was going on. One of the stick his head in the box, he's like, what is this? And they're like, holy fuck. Be back, be back. But we had them for probably a couple months. We had them in a little planter bed out back.
00:39:04
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And the one was named Auron. That was a character. And then the other one was a girl and I couldn't think of another names. I was like, oh, it's a good name too. Same of the ship and subnautica. Yeah.
00:39:19
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Which I assume was your, your inspiration. That's adorable though. I'm glad that like that story didn't end with like duckling death, which is kind of what I assumed when you're like in the chocolate lab stuck his face in there, start going to town. No, we ended up releasing them in like some.
00:39:42
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Creek or something. Yeah. And they would buy other birds. So we, I guess assume that they were going to be like, you'll hang out, right? They probably, I don't know. It's probably like an eagle. That's great. Yeah. I had, uh, I had chickens when I was younger. And by that, again, my parents basically had chickens and my brother in particular more.
00:40:05
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Did you grow up in like farm-ish country or do you just have like an acre outback type thing? Yeah, it was closer to the acre outback, acre or two acres. Yeah, no, like we just have an orchard at one point. We had a cherry
Pet Stories & Reflections
00:40:18
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orchard. How many trees constitutes an orchard? There was like four or five rows probably. That's probably the size one of. It's not like two trees.
00:40:28
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Two, three, four. But yeah, there's probably, I don't know, like 15, 20 trees per row. So it was a considerable number of black cherries, which are pretty delicious. If you just pick a black cherry and eat it. There's something to be said about fresh fruit. We had a mulberry tree out back, but that would just... I thought those were bushes.
00:40:52
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No, mulberry trees. But like when the berries are fresh, they, they're not as sweet as other like raspberries or other flavorful fruits. They're kind of more laid back. They still taste nice enough, but mainly they would just drop from the tree into our backyard and the dogs will walk around outside getting, you know, fruit juice and then come back in. Oh man.
00:41:20
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A lot of carpet cleaner that as long as we have the dogs. Yeah. Well, usually we try and stop them as soon as they came in. It's like, all right, tell you. Halt man. But yeah, we had a, we had chickens. I don't remember much of the.
00:41:38
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They poop a lot. Chickens poop a lot. I assume ducklings do as well. Yeah. Birds just kind of like poop as they go. It's not really a thought. Yeah. Dogs, at least, you're like, I'm hunching, I'm scawing, I'm working this out. Yeah. Ductures, like, what? It's like, I'm just me. Sometimes there's poop. I got to update my Tinder profile.
00:42:03
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Oh man. Did you interact with the chickens at all or were they off to the side? We had some memorable ones. We had Fireball, which had some red there. We had Nestor, which is a very chill chicken as she grew up. Mostly hens, right? Roosters can be compatible and probably depends on the breed too if they literally grew up together.
00:42:31
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and even then they'll probably still like side-eye each other a bit um but otherwise you just want one rooster it's or you're gonna have a bad time um but yeah they they grew up and they were adorable and a lot of just carrying them around and petting them and
00:42:49
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It was great. So they allowed you to pick them up? They were comfortable? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. If they're like, I think, I assume that if chickens were never held, then maybe they'd have more of a problem with it. But if you pick them up. For some reason we said that sentence, I got sad. It's like, they've never been held. Chicken. But I remember them like climbing all, like while they were chicks, just climbing all over, pooping everywhere. So you could lay down and they'd just climb over and like find warmth and poop.
00:43:18
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I was literally literally imagining like you as the giant from Gulliver's travels as you know a giant Gulliver. You're just being tied down by small chicks. Mm-hmm. It sounds it's funny to say chicks, right? Like this is the proper turn. It was such like a 90s slang for girls. Yeah, but no it was nice. They're a good time. That was a couple cats.
00:43:47
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Couple cats.
00:43:49
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But then we, uh, well, I moved across the country, so no longer in farm territory. I thought you said we didn't name the cats because we were eventually going to eat them. Unlike the chickens. Um, how chickens they were. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if like house. I think if you accept that you're going to have house chickens, you're like, there's a maximum to your standard of living. You can attain no carpet for me. Right. Exactly. Um, now they were outside chickens. Um,
00:44:19
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I did assume. Is there a pet that you'd want? Like if you had the space and it wouldn't die? Yeah, that's a good contingency. Huh. If it wouldn't die. Well, I mean like- No, I'm thinking this is a limited amount. The schedule was like you could go away for two weeks. Yeah. And it wasn't an issue. So even if it was a dog, it's a theoretical universe.
00:44:42
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I like the way that you phrase it the first time though, because if you take a pet that would die due to reasons or whatever, and then it wouldn't die, would you then consider that a better pet? What pet do you want that's going to die? So basically a rat, I think. I've never had a rat.
00:44:59
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My wife took care of some rats for like psychology class, um, and like appreciates them, but apparently they're very sociable. Like you can, uh, have great relationship with a rat, but they're super susceptible to cancer. It's like, you just wait a year and they're like, that's it for me.
00:45:21
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yeah nature is just like these things are basically just fast food like food and then fast and that's where they're at on the like well to be free of things if they didn't die that soon imagine how many rats there would be right that's exactly right
00:45:37
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Or, but that's probably why there's so many offspring is because they die. Like, you know, there's a correlation, right? Where it's like, yeah, they have like 200 babies or whatever. That tender is always swipe, right? Right. Yeah. I gotta fucking then go, man. I gotta die. Um, so that'd be an option. I do like cats. Um, dogs are good too.
00:46:02
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Whoa, I would put that in the opposite order. Yeah. I still like a lot of people with that. Yeah. Like I've met a lot of cats from like, this is a great cat, but it's never the same for me as if you go over to a place and your friend has a dog and your dog's like, that fucking guy. Yeah.
00:46:21
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Yeah, that's actually it fills you with joy because like they're always excited now to be fair. They're not the brightest but Neither am I warming I can empathize on this and then they like uh, they like snuggling And they are big enough to provide warmth versus a cat. That's like i'm fur and don't accidentally kick me. Yeah, exactly I think there's like The perfect arrangement would probably be one of the more sociable cats for me
00:46:50
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And I realize there's bias here. I also like dogs, I just grew up with some cats, so. I also like have more in common with cats than dogs. Dogs are like super excited. A lot of the times like, oh we're gonna go outside, we're gonna do this. Dogs get more enthusiastic about everything than I get about anything. That's basically where I'm coming from. Whereas like the just general apathy and need for lethargy that cats have like
00:47:19
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I can relate to this. I've known Jake for a while, and Jake actually takes naps. All I'm saying, guys. All I'm saying. Yeah. But yeah, if you have a cat with a bad temperament, then what's the point? Yeah. My grandparents had an angry cat.
00:47:39
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I think it was mainly angry because of how many like cousins I had and they were all probably young enough at the time where they didn't know how to treat a cat nicely and they probably just like grab at it. So it was like, all right, I fucking hate all kids. Um, so it usually like hide behind things, but occasionally you wouldn't know where it was hiding. Yeah. You just have your leg down and you get, you get attacked. Yeah. So we became afraid of couches for a while. It's a weird time. Yeah.
00:48:08
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But there was nothing like, uh, my cousins have always had cats. They usually would have like three at a time. And the one Chloe had like a really derpy eye. It was a fairly derpy, like a dough cat. You could just like pick it up by its tail, just kind of like hang there. Like ragdoll type cat. Yeah. But remember I came, I came out of the shower and it was just like waiting there. I was like, Oh, Hey. So I just, I picked it up and it was, I walked with it. It was just, just friendly fucking cat.
00:48:38
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I do like cats that are like that chill, ones that are just like, eh, I'll get picked up, it's fine. Like those cats, I enjoy a lot more.
00:48:46
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Yeah. I don't like talking to somebody's cat where I don't know where it's going to go and I assume it's going to be bad. Like on a scale of pillow to weapon. Where are you at right now? I need to know. I just like to put weapons at the corners of my pillows, you know, for safety. Right. Keep the tooth very away. These are mine. I like to flip to the cold side of the pillow, cold, hard steel. Oh man.
00:49:17
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I wonder how many kids have tried to ambush the tooth fairy just been like no No, too many kids too many teeth have been taken At what cost yes, I literally realized it's 50 cents, but at what cost Was that you at all? No, I didn't care. I just wanted 50 cents
00:49:36
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Okay. So you were wanting to buy into this thing for money. You just didn't cross your mind. I was like, if I invest this in Bitcoin now, I don't know. I don't even know what I spent money on as a kid. I never had enough to be like snacks. And if I had 50 cents, I'm like, this equates to a Twinkie at the store. I think that's literally it. You can get like candy and that was basically it.
00:50:01
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Did you do like the thumb in a quarter and then you put your hand through like the loose aluminum and just like wait for candy to drop out? Like runs. Oh man. Oh, I forgot about that. They're like the gumball machines at the end of grocery stores. Yeah Do they have those for oh you saying quarter quarter makes sense. Yeah. Yeah What did you mean the thumb in a quarter you're saying
00:50:24
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So usually it was like a vertical slot. You just kind of, you'd thumb in the quarter. Oh, I see. Pinch it and do that too. I thought this was an elaborate, like, where you're just like, and now I retrieve my quarter from the machine. Um, but yeah, they had stuff like that. And soda also is pretty cheap. Oh my God. 25 cents for some, some cans or 50, 50 was still pretty reasonable. Like at camp, a lot of times they would have,
00:50:53
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I had like a dollar a day stipend as a part of my meal plan. So I'd swim, I'd get out of the pool and I would immediately go for Swedish fish and a Welch's grape soda. Oh yeah. It was so good. It's pretty good. To be fair, yes, I have dental problems now, but at the time it was like the height of my young life because it was just, you get that sugar rush and then maybe go back in the pool. Fuck it. Yeah. Who's going to stop you?
00:51:22
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Are they going to check your stomach? It was usually pool, a camp store for candy and soda. And then you get a game of four square going. Hmm. I know that's a church. I don't know what the game is.
00:51:37
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I mean the four square church. Yeah. Uh, so four square from what I remember, it's been a very long time, but you essentially tape out a square box in that are four sub squares and each person's in one square. Yeah. And so you have whoever is in the highest spot as the server and they serve to somebody by like bouncing the ball towards you. And then if it hits your square, you can hit it once into somebody else's square.
00:52:04
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Huh. So it's basically, if it gets hit into yours and then hits the ground afterwards, you can't react or do anything. You're out. So it's kind of like a slide up structured hacky sack more or less, but with bouncing. Sure. Hacky sack, but you fundamentally changed the rules. Yes. Interesting. This is what a childhood must be like.
00:52:35
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Did you not do any? No, I had a childhood. Yours games? We had a trampoline, so that dominated a lot of- Oh, son. I know. Our own interactions and interactions with friends. To stop being friends once you lost a trampoline, geez, call me up. Friend of the show. Traders from my past.
00:52:54
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That's how it was. Like you had like the one friend who had a cool thing when it was a trampoline, a pool. God, I envied those kids or like a video game console in their basement. Oh yeah. Let's go over to Timmy's house. He's the cool shit. I'm still scarred by an experience. I need to share this with, uh, with a class. Um, trampoline, right? Yeah. Uh, super soaker, which I had.
Childhood Memories & Play
00:53:19
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Mm-hmm.
00:53:20
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had a friend jumping on a trampoline with a super soaker and he freaking broke it. I have not recovered to this day the trauma of losing that super soaker. Did he like jump on it actually? Yeah, he like legitimately jumped on it. I'm just like, I guess I was a young Christian lad so I didn't know what a douche bag was, but that's how I would categorize him in modern times.
00:53:43
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Was it intentional his actions? I don't even know does it matter. I lost a super so I probably not but looking back kids were kind of just jerks in general most of them is there's like I Don't know Traumatizing I should have found computers Kids are very much running on like one thread of like I'm doing this thing. Mm-hmm
00:54:11
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Do I like it? If not, fuck off. Do other things. Yeah. There's not really any other like considerations or processes for other people. Yeah. This is basically the reason I left Washington as kids, uh, kids, kids, kids running around. Okay. Um, but yeah, I don't know. I've had, I've had some good friendships though. At least at least two or three.
00:54:42
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Not to make literally all of this therapy with soapstone. Did you ever lose a super soaker to, um, unfortunate, uh, play accident? I didn't really have a super soaker.
00:54:55
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I didn't have too much in the way of toys so much. Cause usually my parents get me like one thing at a time and there weren't a whole lot of like water. So what's going on? Basically we had a split sprinkler in the back and that was enough for me. That's pretty good. Actually, it's a good baseline.
00:55:14
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It was fun for the dog. Dog had no idea what was going on. Was this one for me? Was this one of the pivot sprinklers that would... Not the pivot, it's more of you attach it to the hose and it sends out like a fan kind of back and forth. Yep. He just run and jump through and go hee hee. It was pretty fun. I guess I didn't understand what an entertainment was as a kid.
00:55:40
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It's just kind of because there's just water past the time. I don't think water could entertain me to the same extent anymore I literally passed like one of these airports that had like it was like a tunnel one of those airport I can't remember which airport it was I've been in several at this point, but it's just like a tunnel with water color water spray like on the sides and
00:56:01
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Like a light show with water, basically. I'm just like, oh, that's cool. Or is it as a kid, like you were in that situation enthralled by like a sprinkler, right? Like it's super entertaining. And then as an adult, I was like, this has occupied my interest for five seconds. I find this adequate. What about like, did you ever go down to the beach and like play in the, uh, the fountains? Um, like little random jets would pop up out of the ground for certain spots.
00:56:29
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yeah i mean we didn't really have one at a beach uh there's a water park i guess that was sort of like that um like southeastern washington there's not much in the way of beaches there's like a river the snake river um and it's not particularly great to swim in but there was a water park there that was pretty fun i did like that um
00:56:52
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I can't remember the name of some of these places. I think it was a waste. I think that's the most generic name for a water park. You say it was a wasteland. I'm like, Jake bad. But yeah, now it's just like, can't even go to anything water related. I'm not going to go to a pool, you know, by myself, especially is like, yeah, ideally like a public pool. There's way too many people and a lot of kids. There's probably kids. Yeah. I really left the state.
00:57:19
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Being an adult male who has any degree of facial hair right being around kids is just or every degree. Yeah Yeah, I don't like It's a little bit weird. I Think if I had my own kids it would still be a little bit weird I'd still be like yeah, these are mine like this is nothing weird going on guys. These are mine
00:57:45
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I'm just not big on kids and because of how standoffish I Am on like a day-to-day basis. I'm not trying to go around and talk to people let alone kids who are in my development, right? Also, I don't want to just be around them because I'm sure I'm come off as like a A more threatening presence than just another kid walking by I'm the height of a kid, but I don't have the mannerisms of a kid, right? I
00:58:17
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And that never happened. So anyways, that never happened. Um, but yeah, I mean, I can't really, I can hardly relate to adults, let alone kids, you know.
00:58:31
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adults a little bit more though because i was looking at the stock market throughout the day i'm like man there's no hope for me is there this is it does the end of it like this is interesting oh there's an article about how this is affecting the stock market i don't really show me a picture of well i guess it's more of an article with a diagram of the stock market for march
00:58:55
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And the waiter slash owner of the Thai place came by and he's like, oh, scary, right? And he's like, yep. And we related on that. Yeah. And we weren't really talking else beyond that. There's not a more mature topic to talk about. I mean, now, admittedly, we went off of this to talking about video games and the waiter didn't jump in for some reason. I didn't get that. He's like, my favorite build in Dark Souls 3 is actually. Oh, man.
00:59:25
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Nah, it's a fun time though. It works out. What I thought was interesting. So we went to a Thai place.
00:59:34
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So one mannerism that I've seen him and other people at that place do is they will append sentences with please, which if you remember from No Game No Life, there was the one fox girl who would always end things with please, but it would be des and Japanese. And they'd always say like, just because you say please at the end of something doesn't make it polite. And she's like, oh, I misunderstood.
01:00:02
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But I think for them like in the same way like oh, oh, this is fine or I'll have this. Thank you Oh, like that's our polite and twist. Yes. Uh-huh. They had please like I come this way, please But another time take your feet off the table, please
01:00:21
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Well, it wasn't like an ask. So as far as my current understanding of English, certain things sounded weird to me for how I was being appended grammatically, but I just thought it was a cool thing. I didn't notice it, but I have a very low perception. It's going, it is known. Dave could start hosting the podcast in a different room and I'd be like, huh?
01:00:45
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Something feels off. I don't know, let's go. What's great is it's entirely true. Yeah. I, on the opposite side, have a very high, like, if somebody starts wearing something different, I'm like, oh, that thing. Why are you wearing red tonight? I don't know why that is. I think for me, I have a lack of stuff going on. So I just notice these patterns and like, let's say you see people at the office. You're a Snoop Dave. He's not wearing the red shirt today.
01:01:15
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Like if I see people in the office like day to day, like you know who they are, what they do, what they look like. So if something changes in that pattern, it becomes more apparent to me. Like I love when it seems to happen with guys a lot. Like everybody's hair's growing out a little bit shaggy. On Monday, five guys have haircuts. It wasn't coordinated. It all works out that way. And you're like, that guy did, that guy did, that guy did.
01:01:42
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It's interesting. I think, I think guys, um, actually pick up on that a little bit less. Cause I like didn't used to really do much with my hair. I just comb it. I switched to like using pomade. And now you comb it back, but with Joe, but with Joe. Yeah. I mean, it looks differently. It looks different than different than just a comb.
01:02:01
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The other advantage is if you like neglect to cut your hair for as long as I do, pomade mitigates that a little bit. It's like, it helps condense everything a little bit. Not enough that, you know, it's a great excuse, but guys don't care. Like they just never really notice or remark on it. I think one time I went in and I didn't do anything with my hair or whatever and I was just like, okay, get some looks. Nobody cares. Literally no one cares.
01:02:30
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Yeah. Guys will not use your mark and other guys appearance all that much. I feel like that's a lot of that's conditioning.
Conclusion & Listener Engagement
01:02:39
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And on that note, uh, yeah, I'm just a shampoo or myself. That was a great plan. Actually. Yeah. I think that's pretty good. I was gonna say that was a low hanging black cherry. If you ask me, black cherries are pretty good. And on that note,
01:02:59
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gonna thank you guys for listening to us talk about a lot of stuff none of which was planned
01:03:07
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That's true. Um, usually that's a lie, but that's actually true. Um, let us know how you feel about us talking about a lot of stuff. Should you wish to join the conversation? I mean, you can't, but if you want to, uh, you can fill in our guest application form on our Patreon page. Petitions.whitehotless.gov. It's for a tier five subs only though. Yeah.
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01:03:53
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Yeah. Always appreciate you guys. I say coming by and hanging out. Yeah. But I don't know what the fuck you're doing when you're listening to this. Right. But I do appreciate those who listen and those who don't. But you wouldn't know that would you?
01:04:10
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This is the best way for us to interact with our fans, because you won't get COVID from us. We won't get COVID from you. It's a pretty good deal. And you'll have to see my dumb fucking face. You're welcome. I might work out another video. I don't know. Yeah. We'll see. We'll see. As always, we'll see you in the next one. Have a good one.